Nouns starting with K

• king salmon — Noun – English ～ pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon
• klap sammen-mad — Noun – Danish ～ stykke smørrebrød bestående af to skiver brød, oft ...
• Kaposi's sarcoma — Noun – English ～ a sarcoma that starts with purplish spots on the feet and legs and spreads from the skin to lymph nodes and internal organs; a common manifestation of AIDS; "until 1980 Kaposi's sarcoma occurred almost exclusively with Jewish or Italian or black men"
• Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — Noun – English ～ an absolute monarchy occupying most of the Arabian Peninsula in southwest Asia; vast oil reserves dominate the economy
• keyhole saw — Noun – English ～ a handsaw with a long narrow blade for cutting short radius curves; similar to a compass saw
• Kelvin scale — Noun – English ～ a temperature scale that defines absolute zero as 0 degrees; water freezes at 273.16 degrees and boils at 373.16 degrees
• Karl Scheele — Noun – English ～ Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786)
• Kochia scoparia — Noun – English ～ densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn
• Kara Sea — Noun – English ～ part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Barents Sea; icebound most of the year
• Kamchatkan sea eagle — Noun – English ～ found on coasts of the northwestern Pacific
• Kepler's second law — Noun – English ～ a law concerning the speed at which planets travel; a line connecting a planet to the sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times; "Kepler's second law means that a planet's orbital speed changes with its distance from the sun"
• kilocycle per second — Noun – English ～ one thousand periods per second
• Kyphosus sectatrix — Noun – English ～ food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships
• Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev — Noun – English ～ Russian actor and theater director who trained his actors to emphasize the psychological motivation of their roles (1863-1938)
• knight's service — Noun – English ～ land tenure by service to the lord as a knight
• Kazimir Severinovich Malevich — Noun – English ～ Russian abstract painter (1878-1935)
• Kunlan Shan — Noun – English ～ a mountain range in western China that extends eastward from the Indian border for 1000 miles
• Kenyan shilling — Noun – English ～ the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents
• Kokka Shinto — Noun – English ～ the branch of Shinto recognized as the official state religion of Japan
• Kernig's sign — Noun – English ～ symptom of meningitis; patient cannot extend the leg at the knee when the thigh is flexed because of stiffness in the hamstrings

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